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 =='''7 JULY25 APRIL'''==
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|author=David SolomonsSylvie Cathrall|title=A Beginner's Guide Letter to Ruling the GalaxyLuminous Deep|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Gavin is being followed, seemingly constantly, by the new (very annoying) girl at schoolThere are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. Only And this is not your typical boy meets girl storyone of them. Because in this instance, the girl in question is Niki, and she is a galactic princess (no, really, she is!) So what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled in a situation where, potentially, Earth and everyone on it will be blown to smithereens, all because of Niki?|isbn=08576399350356522776
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=='''9 MAY'''==
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|author=Alex CotterTom Percival|title=The Mermaid CallWrong Shoes|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids donWill't exist. But she also knows they have to exist – at least s life is difficult, in the public eye. For there would be nothing to Lake Splendour – a far northern English resort – without themmultitude of ways. A hundred years and change ago, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaids, but were forced to return to help out with He is bullied because he has 'the Great War effort. They also showed female emancipationwrong shoes', which helped create he has the townwrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn's tourism industryt have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, now faded and falling apart but once his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a feminist success storybuilding site and had an accident. Alice, a girl who stumbles Throw into Vivien's gran's tourist shop one daythat mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, knows she certainly wants mermaids to exist – she thinks her familyand Will's black sheep died searching for themlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, or else was just too successful in her hunthe still has a tiny amount of hope. When He is good at art, and clings to the shymoments of joy when he is drawing, doubting Thomasina that is Vivien collides with feel like a light at the exuberantend of a long, gung-ho Alice, what on earth – or perhaps in water – will they find?dark tunnel.|isbn=18399419011398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008395632Onyi Nwabineli|title=One Last Secret|author=Adele ParksAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Natalya is an escort. WellAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her namestep-mother Ophelia's not ''actually'' Natalya: thatincreasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her professional name but it twenties and she is a nod slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her Serbian heritage. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora DziewulskiAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, usually known as Dora Wulskiundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. If you're thinking of 'escort' as being a polite description of a prostituteMost importantly, run by a pimpshe is desperately worried about her little sister, whois the new focus of Ophelia's turning tricks to fund a drug habit, forget itonline empire. Dora is a professional in all senses of the word. She has an agentCan she save her sister, Elspeth, who takes 30% of and perhaps herself and her income and deals relationship with her father at the payments but checks out the clients to see that Dora is going to be safe. Dora describes herself as a self-employed clairvoyant to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''12 JULY6 JUNE'''==
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|author=A C WiseKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=HookedDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=It’s been twenty two years since Captain Hook, now going by just ‘James’, has been in NeverlandMeet Kit. Living a new life Like most of the people in Londonhis world, it seems, he has never completely escaped his past. But now he senses is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the edges sport where a team of the beast circling around his life in Londonwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and when suddenly he finds himself face race to face in the street exit, perhaps bothering with Wendythe treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he knows 's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that the line between this world one team has been retired, eaten, and Neverland a new trio of questors is growing thinneeded. The beast is finally coming Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to get him, and in the process will pull Wendy goading from the token bully of his world and her daughter Jane back stumbled into their past once againdeclaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=17890968391839945184
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=='''15 AUGUST13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM1635866847|title=The Calculations of Rational MenLavender Companion|author=Daniel GodfreyJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in contextstrange, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in peoplethings that make you ''immediately's minds. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis feel that's at this is the front of his mindbook for you. HeBefore I started reading 's been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP QueenThe Lavender Companion's Bench, a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to be wary of I visited the McArthur brothers.}}==author'''18 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author= Kit De Waal|title= Without Warning and Only Sometimes|rating= 4|genre= Autobiography|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you up, your mum and dads [https:// They may not mean to, but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood and the bonds that bind familywww. This book is a memoir focussing on the author’s formative years as a teenager living in a lower class area of Birminghampinelavenderfarm. Her father is from St. Kitts in the Caribbean com/ website] and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by and marrying there's a black man. This intersectionality plays picture of a large role in slice of chocolate cake on the autobiographyhomepage. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to her race, her class and her gender. Her parents loom large and are written with care, love, I don't eat cakes and the kind of anger only a child can express to their parents.|isbn=1472284836}}{{Frontpage|author=David Lagercrantz|title=Dark Music|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonderdesserts -mind at the heart of what little investigating is going on, but there is not a lot I wanted that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthcake viscerally. For one, the main focus of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MD. She(There's a Chilean recipe in the Stockholm policebook, put on a murder squad as she knows which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the prime suspect of old, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, book and just outside the stadium. Beppe, the suspect, I was drunkenly antagonistic told to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks make a mess of interrogationit. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, Notes in the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) margins are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is a shamblessanctioned. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve You get to fold down the crime, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind corners of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it allpages. Until, You suspect that may smears of butter would not be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempta problem. I ''loved'' this book already..|isbn=1529413192
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=='''6 OCTOBER4 JULY'''==
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|author=Alison HughesMax Boucherat|title=FlyThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This is a very impressive read, as it does a lot of what mainstream teen and tween fiction still struggles with. Its focus is courtesy of We meet Lori on the first-person narration from Flyevening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, a secondary school lad with cerebral palsymother at work, a downjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a cleanerblanket fort, a carer while at schoolshe has one main intention, and a bundle of assumptions people lay that is to log on him. First they assume to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that with is a broken body comes a broken mind, then they decide hehit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a maths savant – they even believe they can get away with calling him Fly, which isntiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't his real namefind herself entirely on her own, but everybody just uses itand then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=15253058320008666482
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